if I thus burn my finger I may do one of two things: I may quarrel with the stark fact that fire causes pain, or, I may refrain from inserting my finger into the fire. Man has been on this earth long enough to know that certain things produce war, but he prefers to quarrel with the fact that these said things produce war and to blame God and all men who love God for the miseries that hav: come upon the earth rather than to put away the things that cause these sufferings, and put them away he will not until Christ comes to this earth and, asserting His power and authority as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, forces man into sanity at last.
Ettos.
Shanghai, May 17.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.